Century International Arms 50th Aniversary

damn I just threw out some catalogs from the early 80's I have been kicking myself with for years (things I didn't buy when I had the chance)
 
flintlock said:
voila...just the begining.

will post other pages tomorrow if you want....
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Thank you, that's awesome!:)

Interesting to note, I believe 1989 was the first year that the Chinese SKS-D's and AKS's came onto the Canadian and U.S. markets. Their prices dropped a bit in the coming years. Their magazine prices printed there are ridiculous.

Too bad that the heyday of the AK was short-lived.:(

Once again, I see that a lot of the rifles that I'm interested in now, weren't in the best of shape back then.

A full wood No.4 Mk1 in very good condition for $89.95 would have been nice though.:)

I'd really like to see as many scans of those old catalogues as possible.
 
The Mosins listed as Good to VG at that time left a lot to be desired. You got what you paid for. The first Mosins that started coming into the country were the dregs. The Soviets, got rid of the worst first. Not the other way around. The $20 rifles were verging on poor, rather than good. I bought a couple of each. I bought one of the $500 snipers as well. The main post was warped and the cross hair was split. They weren't rusty. They were well used and most had pitted bores. They shot well though. They were ugly and beat up as well. Ammunition was almost impossible to find, just like 6.5x55 was previous to that. The Garands, were very worn. Most of them should have been rebuilt. I was lucky and had my pick from several pallets and managed to find a couple that were in VG condition. All were mixmasters and all had worn pitted stocks. Very similar in appearance to the Garands being sold a few years back by Jean P. The difference being that Jean Ps Garands were in much better mechanical condition.

When you bought something from International in those days, you had to read the condition line very carefully. Mostly their products were high graded by dealers in Canada and the US before they went into those catalogues.

You got what your paid for. International was in business to make money, not give fierarms away. They did a good job and in my opinion were honest. It was a crime to free Canadians when they were forced to leave the country.

You can thank the LPC and Red Tories for that one. You can also thank the unelected shadow government.
 
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